Govt allowed sugar exports on misreported data, CCP briefs FinMin
- 11-Aug-2025
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Competition Commission of Pakistan on Monday told the finance minister that Pakistan’s sugar stocks have dropped owing to export of the commodity. “The government allowed exports based on misreported estimates, which had resulted in drop in sugar stocks,” Dr Kabir Ahmed Sidhu informed Minister of Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb in the Competition Commission of […]
Pakistan sugar exports to Afghanistan surge by 4332pc
- 10-Feb-2025
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s sugar exports to Afghanistan recorded a whopping increase of 4332% in the first seven months of FY 2024-25, ARY News reported on Monday. According to the official figures, from July to January, Pakistan’s sugar exports to Afghanistan reached $262.68 million compared with $5.93 million during the corresponding period in 2023. Pakistani sugar exports […]
ECC decides banning sugar exports
- 28-Aug-2023
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet has decided to impose a ban on sugar exports, ARY News reported on Monday. Caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar chaired the session of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC). The committee decided to ban sugar exports. Prior to this decision, the ECC approved the summary to […]
Millers get govt’s nod for sugar export: sources
- 30-Nov-2022
LAHORE: The deadlock between the government and the sugar mill owners on the crushing has ended as the government has decided to allow the export of sugar, a move that may ensure the running of mills, but may also cause price escalation, ARY News reported, citing sources. Sources within the production ministry said that talks […]
Negotiations between govt, sugar mills remain inconclusive
- 24-Nov-2022
ISLAMABAD: The second round of talks between the federal government and the owners of the sugar mills remained inconclusive as no decision was taken yet regarding the sugar export. Federal Minister for National Food Security & Research Chaudhary Tariq Bashir Cheema said in a statement that the government has not yet granted permission for the […]
Pakistan’s Sugar exports Increases upto 1.359 million tonnes
- 28-Jun-2018
KARACHI: Sugar exports from Pakistan showed an increasing trend of record hike of 1.359 million tons, due to which country earns $474 million during the first eleven months (July-May) of the financial year 2017-18. Last year, the sugar exports were about 302,268 tons providing $158 million in the corresponding period of the last FY17. In last […]